Right? 😁 Oh, and let’s not forget about ‘apart’, which is far too often incorrectly substituted for ‘a part’. What’s that? You’re so happy to be ‘apart’ of this magnificent event? Ha! Keep misusing that word, and you will indeed find yourself to be apart from said event. 😜

So many memes on your/you’re, yet none about its/it’s? The latter is my major bane when my fingers are typing faster than my brain (which is 100% of the time). I will use the wrong case of its/it’s about 90% of the time… its just a fact of life for me! 😛

They’re/their seems to throw me as well…. not that I don’t know when to use each one, but that there’s some kind of brain to hand malfunction that causes me to type the wrong one and I neglect to catch it…

I will admit to this being the first time I’ve ever heard that “alot” is not a word. What!?!? That’s as blasphemous as saying “ain’t” ain’t a word!!!

In college I was recruited by several of my friends studying Engineering to help them work though these kinds of issues on their papers. They wound up making way more money than I. Bill them accordingly? Perhaps a tad late at this point. Wonder how many readers went to comment here but were deathly afraid they’d make an error? To be honest I see so many typos and grammar mistakes these days it’s more rare to NOT see them.

Great list of grammar mistakes. I was taught that Alot was a monster and that was his first name. So unless you’re talking about the monster Alot, you use a lot. Very effective lesson because I still remember the cartoon monster that went with it. Alot was cute.

Unfortunately, those who need it the most are unaware of the National Grammar Day. They are equally unaware of grammar.
Thank you for the graphics;with your permission, I will use them to terrorize my students.
P.S. It’s not “your welcome” any more; it’s “ur welcome” – the benefits of modern technology.
Yrs,
Dolly

Grammar itself probably isn’t all that humorous, but the myriad of ways people manage to mangle it does provide a bit of comic relief. Especially when we create memes poking fun at these otherwise irritating flaws. 😀

I do like proper grammar, but I can also appreciate that language is an evolving medium. Things that do not allow for change invariable stagnate – which is why we don’t speak like they did hundreds of years ago. 🙂
Still, I like it when words are used correctly. Ours brains, on the other hand, really don’t care because they can work it out anyway, just try those problems where sentences are written backwards, upside down, without vowels etc.

When I write my blog posts, my style is more laid back, versus if I were to be writing a research paper. I do play around with sentence structure in ways that I know aren’t necessarily grammatically correct, simply because they create greater impact that way. Oh, and I have been known to toss in some slang here and there…

The important thing is that I use all those words I just griped about (your/you’re, etc) correctly. 😛

I’ve had moments of being completely horrified after realizing that I’d somehow typed the wrong version of one of those commonly confused words. It’s rare, but it makes me feel like the brain cells are slowly rolling right out of my head… 😛

What a refreshing posting! I spent many years teaching police recruits how to write sentences. These were college graduates, mind you… Towards the end of my career, I was a supervisor in an Intel Unit and was responsible for quality checking the analysts’ workups and reports. Again, college graduate’s. Could not written a sentence. Everything in fragments. All in passive voice. Should of saw it…!

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